Plymouth Plantation Dbq

In conclusion Jamestown and Plymouth both had unique challenges in the early years of colonization. Although both were successful in different aspects, both had problems with famine, and disease which crippled them throughout the beginning of their prospective colonies. Despite their economic hardships, they were both equally important and vital to the future of

Most people think they know the true story of the Pilgrims arriving in the United States; however, students tend to not know all of the facts. When Dr. James Loewen discovered this problem, he wrote “The Truth about the First Thanksgiving”. In his article, he wrote about what his students didn’t know about the Pilgrims because of the lack of information they learned from textbooks. He explained the plague before the Pilgrims came, the possible reasons why the Pilgrims chose Massachusetts, and the story of the Pilgrims settling in America.

Have you ever read a very important document from the 1600s, probably not by yourself anyways. Well when you read them you realize that they are very interesting pieces of writing, if you can understand them. For example, “Of Plymouth Plantation” is a piece of writing that shows how people came to new land. The “Of Plymouth Plantation” is a very engaging piece of writing because it states what they believed, how they survived but, it is also very boring because poor word choice, and the runon-sentences.

Leaders of Plymouth and Jamestown are both compare because they both came from England, Native Americans aided the newly incorporated groups by supplying them for food, and both empires resulted in the starvation and death. However, in Jamestown, John Smith set a goal to make money and get rich, developed the idea of everyone for themselves, men were the dominant gender, and Smith abandoned the colony and never decided to return. As for Plymouth, William Bradford 's’ goal was to have religious freedom, the group helped one another, families were unity of the empire, and Bradford was more caring and considerate of his people and remained this way for the rest of his life.

We all tend to have a certain way of doing things that when it comes to everyone else, we start to believe it’s a divergent way of doing things. In other words it’s an act of ethnocentrism. A perfect and extreme example of ethnocentrism would be Hitler and the Nazis against the Jews. Hitler believed that the Jews were subordinate to his ethnicity and his believes so they didn’t deserve to live. This connects with Bradford and Smith’s in the way of first impression. They both saw the native americans in an unfriendly way and very different from them due to their choice of style and that’s exactly where ethnocentrism plays a role. Bradford and Smith had their own opinions on the native americans once they touched land and saw them.

When April arrived, the crew of the Mayflower raised its sails and set off for England, offering to take any Pilgrim who wished to return to England. Faced with the choice of the harsh New World, or the religious intolerance of the King, they all stayed.

The colonization of New England started with a king who chose his enemies unwisely. Succeeder of Elizabeth I in 1603, James I vowed to purge all radical Protestant reformers, especially the Puritans whom were made up of Presbyterians and Congregationalists. So in an attempt to flee from persecution, they set off for a new land to build their utopia. In November 1620 some 88 “Pilgrims” set anchor at a place they called Plymouth (on today’s coast of southeastern Massachusetts). They were shaken by shipboard mutiny, sick with scurvy, and weak from mal nutrition. Few foreseen founding the first permanent European settlement in New England. Many did not live long enough to enjoy the distinction. They arrived too late to plant crops due to weather and only brought enough food to last a month. By the spring of 1621, half of the Pilgrims laid dead. Plymouth might also ended up a tragedy like their Jamestown counterparts except they received better treatment from the native Indians. The Wampanoag’s controlled the land around Plymouth, and was eager to obtain trade goods and assistance against their native enemies. Their chief agreed to help the starving colonists. In the beginning they communicated through a Wampanoag named Squanto. Squanto had been captured by English sailors and taken to England where he learned English. The Pilgrims openly accepted the help and hospitality from the natives, and after their first successful

In an article by Pleck (2011) it was claimed that the pilgrims did not have ruffled shirts, buckled shoes nor did they consume on turkey at the harvest feast that occurred in 1621. This may come as a shock to most because growing up we were taught to believe these along with other “facts” about the harvest feast that we come to know as the first thanksgiving. The pilgrims lost many of their people in the winter of 1620 due to lack of foraging knowledge. This led the colony to form a relationship with the Wampanoag tribe. They taught them how to fish as well as gather vegetables. This is thought to be common knowledge but as previously stated this may not be completely true after all. Pleck was not the only person to uncover the truth about the harvest feast of 1621. A director named Ellis (2010) made a documentary that confirms the feast

The pilgrims went to Plymouth in September 1620 in hopes of making a better life for themselves and their children while being able to worship freely and in peace. Among the group were farmers, woodworkers, shopkeepers, blacksmiths, weavers, and servants. There were also people who went for religious reasons. They were going to settle in Cape Cod but the water was too shallow for the ship to go in and out with supplies and there were also too many Indian tribes. The people had the courage, gratitude to God, and love for one another. The story of the Mayflower, the trip across the Atlantic, to the Plymouth Colony with its tragic first winter, the treaty with the Indian tribes and celebrated First Thanksgiving goes down the ages and around the world.

Bradford’s style is very different from Edwards’. Bradford conveyed his message by describing the pilgrims’ voyage to America. His text is written as diary entries that include stories from their travels. In paragraph two, Bradford describes an event where a man was thrown over the boat. His vivid descriptions of the “fierce winds” allow the reader to picture this story. His use of imagery helps readers imagine and understand what the pilgrims faced while on their voyage and even after the reached their destination.

William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Plantation” opened my eyes about Plymouth and Thanksgiving. First of all, there was a part in Bradford’s background that caught my eye: Thanksgiving. I am sure that many of us at some point visualized Thanksgiving as a large feast. However, I found it shocking that his narrative does not emphasize a feast, but rather a document of what it was like in Plymouth and the interactions with the Native Americans. Either way, I still found it interesting how Thanksgiving came to be. It would be nice to read another person’s viewpoint of Thanksgiving and to see if there really was a feast or not.

William Bradford wrote, ‘Of Plymouth Plantation’ written sometime between the years 1630-1651 serves as an historical account of the Pilgrims’ voyage and colonization in America. Bradford was born in England but became a separatist, and in 1620, sailed with his wife for America aboard the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. Bradford was a prominent member of the colony, even becoming governor for many years. His written account is still largely considered one the most important historical documents of the Colonization period. However, although viewed as an established historical piece, Bradford exhibits some bias in his historical accounts. His main purpose in writing the book was to convey his world-view/ideology of the Puritan lifestyle and to demonstrate his belief that the establishment of the colony was directly carried out according to God’s divine will. His religious beliefs were demonstrated in the language of the text through the use of a plain-style, third person narrative writing along with his use of biblical illustrations.

William Bradford and William Byrd may share the same first name but that is the length of the similarities between these two colonial writers. Bradford, a puritan writer, valued religious freedom above all else, often making the connection back to God and religion in his writings. In his text, Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford uses his personal experience to give an account of the first pilgrims and the hardships they faced in their journey to colonize America. On the other hand, Byrd takes a more satirical approach, using humor and wit to criticize those same early American settlers in his publication The History of the Dividing Line. Bradford and Byrd both wrote texts about early American life. However, the two authors have different purposes

In a way pilgrims had to endure many hardships,but they chose this path because they were persecuted for their religous beliefs. Also to not be forgoten they travel one time in a certain group over a great ocean this was a journey no fugittive would take.Most importan to recognize the trsuggle the had to endure when they landed in the americas now were left to fend for themselves.Luckly in this new piece of land there are natives who have useful resoures.Also very distincive to a fugitive would be the fact that pilgrims brang tools to this new coutry

William Bradford, in his own unique way, sees bad weather as a way for God to give things to his people, even though the circumstances are awful and destructive. Shortly after the Pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod they start looking for a place to settle, and they found Native American houses. In those houses, they found corn, although all of the people had fled from the new settlers. (They paid the corn back to the Native Americans in six months) “And it is to noted as a special providence of God, and a great mercy to this poor people, that they thus got seed to plant corn the next year, or they might have starved… for the ground was soon all covered with snow and frozen hard.” These people were sick, weak, and starving living in a cold, snow-covered land they were unfamiliar with and God provided them with food so they would not starve in the coming years. Out of depravity and sickness God provided and gave these weary travelers a means to support themselves.